I decided to write a blog because I want to remember what I am thinking and feeling during this experience. I’m sure some days will be really hard but hopefully there will be some really exciting ones too.
Just incase someone wants to follow me through this experience, I will give you some background info. So far we have done 2 IUI cycles with no success. There is only a 10-20% chance that an IUI cycle will work. I do believe that method would work eventually, but IVF has a 60% chance of working and the investment, being both time and money, would be put to better use.
The pharmacy called with the gigantic list of medicines they were shipping me. They didn’t know how much it would cost but said that I could set a limit on how much could be charged to my credit card. If it went over that limit, they would call me and I could either cancel the order or authorize the higher amount. Thinking that cancelling the order sounded pretty good at this point (considering how much meds they were trying to force on me) I set the limit at $50. I knew that there was no chance the medicine would cost any less than that. My guess was that the total would be around $500.
A couple days later the pharmacy called to tell me that the medicines cost more than I authorized. By this point I was done having my panic attack (for the moment) and had decided not to cancel the order. When the representative told me the total was going to be $350, I was relieved (I had planned on $500). She said “Oh, I thought you were going to be upset because I see you set your limit at $50”. I explained to her that it was my “temporary out” and that I would be fine with raising my limit.
A few days after that, the medicine came in the mail. The box is huge. There are so many syringes, I have no idea how I’m going to possibly use them all. The nurse won’t release or timeline, which tells me when and how to take everything, until our blood work comes back and proves that we don’t have any infectious diseases. And thanks to my very loud nurse, everyone who was in the waiting room at the South Bend Medical Foundation during my testing now thinks I have HIV. Thank you nurse lady.
I don’t start my meds until next Saturday. I’m excited that I get one more week just to me be.
1 comment:
Thank you for sharing this.
I hope that this is a good experience for you and that blogging it as you go through the process is as helpful for you as it was for me when Hunter was in the hospital.
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